All of lore.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow linker to eliminate unused functions in lib/*
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 05:51:41 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100111105141.GA5550@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100110231708.GC4019@discord.disaster>

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 10:17:08AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> Andi, how do you want to handle the overlap between this and the
> list_sort() patch I sent? I'm going to need a list_sort() available
> in the XFS tree well before the 2.6.34 merge window....

Honestly, if Andrew and Linus play with the game I'd just throw in your
patch to move the two indentical list_sort implementations into lib/
right now.  It's just moving stuff around so the normal merge window
shouldn't apply.  This would make life a lot easier for introducing new
users in .34.


  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-11 10:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-05 14:59 [PATCH] Allow linker to eliminate unused functions in lib/* Andi Kleen
2010-01-09  0:29 ` Andrew Morton
2010-01-09 16:51   ` Andi Kleen
2010-01-10 23:17     ` Dave Chinner
2010-01-11 10:51       ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2010-01-11 14:24       ` Andi Kleen
2010-01-11 22:49         ` Dave Chinner
2010-01-15 23:44     ` Andrew Morton
2010-01-16 11:07       ` Andi Kleen

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20100111105141.GA5550@infradead.org \
    --to=hch@infradead.org \
    --cc=akpm@linux-foundation.org \
    --cc=andi@firstfloor.org \
    --cc=david@fromorbit.com \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.